TRON is an ambitious project dedicated to building the infrastructure for a truly decentralized Internet. The Tron Protocol, one of the largest blockchain based operating systems in the world, offers scalable, high-availability and high-throughput support that underlies all the decentralized applications in the TRON ecosystem.

Decentralized applications that you can trust:

We strive to create a decentralized internet that allows everyone to freely create content, websites, and applications, without relying on centralized services. By empowering the users, we will transform the internet on a global scale.

Blockchain-based smart contracts:

In the new internet era, the legislative power will be transferred from an opaque centralized authority to transparent codes. Rules and platforms will be entirely transparent and based on faithfully executed smart contracts.

Digital Assets Issued by Anyone:

Blockchain technology allows every individual the ability to issue digital assets under the protection of a decentralized internet. Digital assets allow strangers to collaborate and profit on a grand scale, which is the foundation of a prosperous decentralized internet.

Tron is a representative of the Web 4.0 Ecosystem. More than 100,000 users from more than 100 countries have become part of this network with ever expanding boundaries.

TRON Protocol and the TVM allow anyone to develop DAPPs for themselves or their communities, with smart contracts making decentralized crowdfunding and token issuance easier than ever. Tron DAPP projects already include Bittorrent & Peiwo with 100M+ active users from more than 100 countries and regions around the world.

This answer has changed. At first, it was a general belief in Justin Sun's business abilities. He has a track record and experience building successful internet enterprises. My gut feeling was that Justin had built far too big of a reputation for to pull an exit scam. Here's a guy who isn't ready to throw the rest of his career away. Whether Jack Ma was involved or not, JS probably has his ear, is able to ask for advice, etc. As they say, it's not what you know, it's who you know.

Since then I have seen the stumbles and pratfalls, but I've also witnessed development at breakneck speed. Tron began with ETH virtual machine as a template but it has moved way beyond ethereum's capabilities. Even in areas where they have comparable services (transaction speed, cost, dapp resources and fees) Tron is far superior platform. On top of that, TRON has added zk-SNARKs technology which in itself was good enough to launch a couple coins to $100. TRON also has multi-sig, and layer two sidechains. Right here this puts TRON head and shoulders above the rest. The Twitter Trolls tell me that Vitalik could do all this "on his drive home" (and yet somehow he hasn't) and "dozens" of other companies have done the same - - but no one has ever educated my by naming a single blockchain with all these features.

Now for the coup de grace, which is bittorrent. Decentralized file swarming with an underlying BTT currency? GTFO. Stick a fork in the competition. Tron has combined Bittorrent with IPFS to come up with BTFS. Tron has adapted torrent to create a live streaming torrent with BTLIVE. BT will decentralize video streaming, keep ownership in the hands of content creators, pay audiences for enduring commercials, and pay participants for contributing drive space and bandwidth to the network.

I don't think many of us have the vision to imagine the possibilities of what can be done with this. In the end all economies operate on the velocity of money. Tron's potential economy won't be atomic transactions created individually, it will be a ganglia of constant streams.

Nice I dig it. I don’t pay any attention to price I’m just holding onto mine in hopes that it might actually turn into something one day. Seems like a bit of a gamble considering current circumstances but fuck it let’s see what happens. I think between trx and btt atleast one will be worth the wait.

I use it on eggies.world, traps.one, and also with the spend app to buy things in the real world. Although less of that with the price where it is. I am just stacking my cityuptake rewards for the moment.

Fantastic article!! I still believe in tron as a tool to launch great projects. I have found some of the best people in the space and am watching some of the projects closely. Thank you for the work you put in. It doesn’t go unnoticed!

Man I must have been out of the loop. I didn't even realize they got zk-SNARKs out and this is really great to hear. The most recent article I can find on this is from July and it says it is on the test net. When will it make it to main net? It funny with all the FUD and BS that gets talked about in the reddit crypto forums that actual progress like this gets ignored.

Great article Jason.. I think for as young as 16-20 months Tron has tremendously advanced.. Tron is not focusing on only layer1 solution.. It is integrating multiple projects- multiple level in house.. See all this as blockchain tech, as with an analogy of internet @ 1980-90 times.. Blockchain is the future and TRON is working on complete solution..

I appreciate you're input. I've changed my stance on Tron though. What bothers me most about Tron is that decrentralized networks go against the ethos of the CCP and unfortunately Justin cannot grow a decentralized internet within the borders of China without being corrupted by the CCP or risking his and his family's lives. Jack Ma was ousted and replaced by 5 unknown figure heads, Interpol director mysteriously disappeared once re-entering China all very scary indicators of how powerful the CCP is. sold my position, it was quite a hefty one and I'm happy with my decision. I like the tech and what they've done for the most part but the goals of Tron will never be achieved unless Tron Foundation relocates outside of China. Justin Sun needs to rebel against his government by leaving is borders but he's already submitted IMHO after begging forgiveness to the CCP for his overzealous behavior and rescheduling his lunch with the posterboy of free markets Mr. Buffet.

But what could take down the CCP? The people with decentralized and mesh networks. China will be left behind and will be forced to adapt. It is a pressure cooker that will break and I believe the decentralized model will win eventually. I could see a pseudo temporary state controlled "decentralized" network in China, but in the end in the new value internet where the whole world must interact, China must cave in.

He was forced out by the CCP it shouldn't be a surprise, they've been clamping down on private enterprise ( should say pseudo private). His successor was selected by the CCP group that he handed the company too. In China it is practically mandatory to have government officials/spies working within such a organization. That being said Tron is still a horrible investment just for the simple fact of being headquartered in China.

Let's not kid ourselves, he is a little bit more than "just hype". Him and the TF team have created a remarkable working product that is still in its infancy and just hasn't gained massive adoption momentum YET.

The whole market is bleeding right now, and that's fine. If you have been in this space for a while you'll know that this is nothing new and it's bounced back from massive dips multiple times in the past. If it was just TRX falling and every other coin was increasing then I'd start to get worried, but this has never been the case.

u/Bondibox has kindly provided a succinct list of evidence for why he believes Tron has successfully created an impressive working product and for why it most definitely is not a "shitcoin" like A LOT of you uneducated Trolls like to refer to it as - please do enlighten us all with your counter arguments for his points and why JS is so "full of lies only hype nothing else"...

You say it’s the truth like you know the future. Which nobody does. Yes many believe it could hit zero and be gone, but many others believe in the projects success. And besides, why are you even on here posting negative comments towards the project and other users? Are you a hodler of TRX? Don’t give me the “I’m trying to educate others about scams and help others” answer either, because at the end of the day, you’re not anybodies financial advisor here and have zero business recommending what others choose to do with your money in crypto. So you’re basically spending time out of your life to be on a thread with negative intentions.

You seem like a nice person - with lots of friends. Because 10% doesn't mean anything with how much it's tanked. Their products they've released has proven the market/consumers don't care. Everything about this shows it's going to zero. By the way - since you last typed "it's been up 10%" 3% of that has already been lost.

Whaaaa whaaaa whaaaaa price price price"When I make an investment I expect it to go UP, immediately. Price should be based on whether it's popular with the crypto cool kids and have nothing to do with technological advancements. Don't talk to me about tech, all I hear is 'yadda yadda yaddda.'"

I held tron for a long time but the reddit was dead and fud was hitting hard so I got out to bitcoin. Just wish I tethered up at 0.08c but at that point I had given up so just let the price drop before I started trading again

Guys...I was a big fan of tron. Champion coin. But it’s time to face facts and get out of delulu land. The price might go up in the future. However, its practicality, use case, and adoption... don’t get your hopes up.

By the time the tron project fully matures into something compelling, it will most likely be behind newer and more efficient projects. Something better will be implemented by then simply because of the interest in crypto and money funneling into that project.

If you want to make money with tron, good luck with trading. But don’t put your money in it hoping for some kind of grand development

I honestly can’t speak for other coins because I didn’t pay attention to any as nearly as I did tron. Ethereum and Cardano should not be grouped there. I don’t know much about EOS and NEO looks to be on its last legs. You can choose to believe whatever you want. I just hope for tron, that list of big name VC’s are still willing to bet on it.

I have to laugh when people bring this up. What is it that you are trying to say? Tron doesn't know what they are doing and they are incapable of building the Virtual Machine technology? Hahahahahahahaha that was a good line for creating FUD back in January of 2018 but we're well past that now. Everything in that white paper is already a reality and they have a half dozen projects in the can which weren't even mentioned in the white paper.

I’m trying to say that Justin Sun has poor work ethic. I don’t care how far Tron has come. Justin is a smart man in the way that he markets and hypes the shit out of his coin in order to keep things moving, I’ll give him that. He’s the type of guy to pull an elaborate scam. In my eyes he’s a bernie madoff. Sorry but do you actually think any business giving off real world value will tweet an announcement of an upcoming announcement? Tron is hype. People fall for hype. That’s why it is where it is on CMC.

Go tell that to the underds of people working for TF worldwide... You don't hire hundreds of people and buy and 130M $ company to exitscam. It does not make any sense.. If he really wanted to exit scam TRON would have never go live they would have kept it as a ERC token, way less work and way more profit

Exactly. They are putting way too much effort into it to just run and exit. This line of logic is ridiculous on its face - if they were going to exit scam they would have done so already, and not spent the past year burning through capital. OH so the next argument is they are waiting for the 34 Billion TRX to be released... and in the meantime they are just creating the most quality, functional project they can so they can sell that TRX at top dollar in six months. Yeah, that's it, TRON is just kicking everyone's asses so they can say "Psych!!!" and walk away. Makes sense.